Questions

In October 2015, more than 350 landmarks in more than 90 countries were lit blue, the official colour of the United Nations. What was the occasion?

Who was awarded the 2017 Padma Bhushan Award in the field of Art-Music?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

At the eleventh hour

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The chasm ______________ the needs of the people who struggle ______________ survival, action and inaction by representatives, and lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________. Defections from one party to another indicate _______________ of the basic obligations of representatives, even ___________ their own people starve.

even ___________ their own people starve.

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Invective

In the given question, an idiom/phrase highlighted in bold is given in a sentence. Choose the most suitable meaning of the idiom/phrase.

I hope you pardon my French that I used during the serious and intense discussion we were having yesterday.

Which of the following is NOT a form of Monosaccharide Sugar?